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Giving up on stopping the $85 billion in sequestration spending cuts set to take effect on Friday, House lawmakers headed home for the weekend today with Republicans blaming Democrats and Democrats blaming Republicans. The sweeping cuts will take an immediate toll on on defense and social services.
http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/national...uts-set-to-tak
How nice for them .... a three day weekend while - as the (D)'s would have us believe - Rome burns
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Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) actually said, “If sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost.”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 134 million jobs in the entire United States!
Maxine is actually claiming that because of this TINY budget issue, that every person in the USA will be unemployed. Not one person in America will have a job!
I am amazed that she didn't also claim that America might tip over and sink into the ocean.
This woman is insane. Absolutely insane.
If you don't believe me, here is the video: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...-her-estimate/Last edited by Jolie Rouge; 02-28-2013 at 08:46 PM.
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Perhaps she is talking about all the illegals losing their jobs? In california that could be at least 1/2 the population since there are some towns with a population of 95% illegals.
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How to win the Sequestrocalypse
posted at 9:21 am on March 1, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
Check the window. Did the sun rise in the east this morning? The big blue marble still spinning on its axis? Via The Corner, Charles Krauthammer explains how Republicans now have the upper hand in the Nightmare on Sequester Street hysteria, thanks to Barack Obama’s wildly overshoot on doomsaying. That doesn’t mean they can hang onto that edge, however, and Krauthammer advises Republicans to make sure that Obama has to reject the authority to adjust spending to cover priorities to show just what kind of game Obama has played:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3epY...layer_embedded
In his column today, Krauthammer spells out Obama’s strategy in greater detail: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...2df_story.html
Hence the president’s message. If the “sequestration” — automatic spending cuts— goes into effect, the skies will fall. Plane travel jeopardized, carrier groups beached, teachers furloughed. And a shortage of junk-touching TSA agents.
The Obama administration has every incentive to make the sky fall, lest we suffer that terrible calamity — cuts the nation survives. Are they threatening to pare back consultants, conferences, travel and other nonessential fluff? Hardly. It shall be air-traffic control. Meat inspection. Weather forecasting.
A 2011 Government Accountability Officereport gave a sampling of the vastness of what could be cut, consolidated and rationalized in Washington: 44 overlapping job training programs, 18 for nutrition assistance, 82 (!) on teacher quality, 56 dealing with financial literacy, more than 20 for homelessness, etc. Total annual cost: $100 billion-$200 billion, about two to five times the entire domestic sequester.
Are these on the chopping block? No sir. It’s firemen first. That’s the phrase coined in 1976 by legendary Washington Monthly editor Charlie Peters to describe the way government functionaries beat back budget cuts. Dare suggest a nick in the city budget, and the mayor immediately shuts down the firehouse. The DMV back office, stacked with nepotistic incompetents, remains intact. Shrink it and no one would notice. Sell the firetruck — the people scream and the city council falls silent about any future cuts.
But even as Obama proclaims dire consequences from the cuts, he is already hedging his bets.
“The impact of this policy won’t be felt overnight, but it will be real,” the president said.
This was a key concession. With further skirmishes over the debt ceiling and government funding not far off, the White House finds itself in choppy political waters for the first time since Obama won reelection. Its best-case political course hinges on the economy screeching to a halt, assumes that Republicans will again cave on revenues, and relies on the public being on his side. It’s a political gamble that could go bust. …
“There’s real risk in saying that the sky is falling … especially if you consider that sequestration is structured to come in slowly,” said William Galston, a former adviser to President Clinton who is now with the Brookings Institution. “If after three weeks people look around and the sky is where it traditionally has been. … he has to be careful he doesn’t get too far out on that limb.”
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How Would Dr.Seuss Explain the Sequester?
On Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the end,
there lived a President who wanted to spend.
He knew spending meant power, so hour by hour,
he thought up more spends from his Washington tower.
“I’ll spend without limits; I’ll spend without blame!
Raising taxes to pay—that’s the name of the game.”
Down the street, though, a House filled with thriftier folk
had a budget to pass, or the country’d go broke.
“We can’t spend all day; we’ve got bills to pay!
Let’s keep deficits and higher taxes away.”
The Senate next door to the House just refused.
“We don’t like your budget. We’ve got some bad news:
The President says we can spend all we want,
and we’ll simply raise taxes whenever we choose.”
So they spent and they spent
and they borrowed some more.
And when all that was spent,
they spent same as before.
But not everyone thought the spending was nice.
In the House and the Senate, some spenders thought twice.
“We’ll cut down on spending. We have a bad feeling…”
then—SMACK!—right on schedule, they hit the debt ceiling.
Then the President’s office, confronted with debt:
“If it’s cuts they want now, then it’s cuts they shall get.
We’ll threaten such cuts that NO one would take,
and show them that cuts are not smart to make.”
“This will make Congress move.
We’ll just float out a tester…
broad, haphazard cuts that
we’ll call the sequester.”
The Senate and even the House said,
“Okay! That will motivate us to find a good way.
We’ll figure this out and stave off those cuts
—to allow them to happen, we’d have to be nuts.”
So the deadline was set,
but the spending went on.
A year and a half had soon come and gone.
The House passed a budget; the Senate said no;
the President very much enjoyed the show.
“Spend higher! Spend faster! Grow the welfare rolls!
Soon, love for the spending will show up in the polls.”
He even raised taxes, but it wasn’t enough
—the levels of spending grew too fast to keep up.
“Don’t you mind the sequester,” he told Capitol Hill.
“You said you would fix it, and I’m sure you will.”
But they could not agree on ways to cut spending,
and before they knew it, the sequester was pending.
“Oh no!” they all cried. “We can’t let these cuts stand!”
And the President said, “WHO thought of this terrible plan?”
They didn’t remember his plan all along.
He distracted them with his spending-cut song.
Now he returned to save them from harm,
and to keep them forgetting all but his charm.
So the President said with a glint in his eye,
“You tried to cut spending. I saw how you tried.
But it’s just too painful—I’m sure you can see.
From the beginning, you should have listened to me.”
“I’ll save you all from the spend-cutters’ axes.
You see, the solution is just to raise taxes.”
***
We don’t know yet how this story will end.
Will Congress raise taxes and continue to spend?
We need a balanced budget with smarter cuts—r
eforming entitlements will take guts.
Let the President know that we’re onto his plan.
Share this story with as many people as you can.
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http://www.usmessageboard.com/politi...president.html
see his exalted claim he is not a dictator, he is president........................................i nflated ego
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White House threatens Bob Woodward http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=47651
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WaPo, CBS, CNN: In spite of what Obama said, Capitol janitors are not getting a sequester-induced pay cut
By Doug Powers • March 1, 2013 08:40 PM
During President Obama’s “the sequester’s coming to devour your paycheck” news conference Friday morning, he made this claim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=LrPmaS4VhQU
“Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.”
Obama’s remarks continue the administration’s pattern of overstating the potential impact of the sequester, which we have explored this week. We originally thought this was maybe a Two Pinocchio rating, but in light of the AOC memo and the confirmation that security guards will not face a pay cut, nothing in Obama’s statement came close to being correct.
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despite obama claim pay cuts to begin for capitol janitors & "security guards" (aka police), SAA Gainer tells me no plans for pay cuts yet
6:38 PM - 01 Mar 13
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...itors-pay-cut/
The president’s mention prompted Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building and the Capitol Visitors Center, to email his employees within hours of Mr. Obama’s comment. “The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted,” Elias wrote.
“There was a specific mention in the news today by a high ranking official that said ‘The employees that clean and maintain the US Capitol will receive a cut in pay’ (not specific quote but very close to it),” Elias continued.
Also, don’t miss Michael Ramirez’s pie charts for a little more sequestration perspective http://www.investors.com/editorial-c...ramirez/645725
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Good news: White House meme-generating department unscathed by sequestration
By Doug Powers • March 2, 2013 04:56 PM
Yesterday, President Obama said he couldn’t solve sequestration by using a “Jedi mind meld.” http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/01/obama-jedi/ Mockery was swift and immediate http://twitchy.com/2013/03/01/obamas...e-looking-for/ , but most importantly the whole thing helped keep some of the focus off the fact that Obama told some whoppers during the news conference. http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/01...itol-janitors/ Because of that, the White House decided to keep running with the joke : http://twitchy.com/2013/03/01/derp-m...mas-jedi-gaffe
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It must be comforting to those janitors who might have been troubled when the president (er, I mean a “high ranking official”) falsely said they were getting a pay cut to know there’s still enough money in the budget for the administration’s meme-du-jour Photoshop guy.
WhiteHouse.gov/JediMindMeld defaults to a sequester page http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/seq...residents-plan where the administration that just topped $6 trillion in added debt explains how much money their plan would save or something. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57572177/national-debt-up-$6-trillion-since-obama-took-office/
As for getting the media’s help spreading the word, it’s “take the Obama talking points to work” day at the Associated Press (via Twitchy): http://twitchy.com/2013/03/01/aphead...couldnt-avert/
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BREAKING: Obama signs order to begin $85 billion in spending cuts that he opposed but couldn't avert - SM
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Sunday open thread linkfest: Sequester edition
By Doug Powers • March 3, 2013 01:36 PM
Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling (the one who was critical of Bob Woodward’s reporting about the sequester) admitted this morning that the White House put forth the design of the sequestration (somebody alert the AP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkn3...layer_embedded
Quote of the week: http://www.omaha.com/article/2013030...703039969/1677
“The worst case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.”
A few days ago, Michelle spoofed the first lady’s “evolution of mom dancing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Hq-URl9F17Y in a video called “evolution of liberal dance.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1iRd...layer_embedded Not everybody was thrilled with that sort of “heresy” from “conservative lunatics.” That response is a spoof of itself, rendering it unspoofable. http://joyannaadams.wordpress.com/20...chelle-malkin/
Saturday Night Live did a fairly good mock-job on Obama’s use of human props at news conferences: video at link
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Obama Talks Sequester Doom Then Gives $250 Million to Egypt
4 March 2013
John Kerry said the U.S. is releasing $250 million of our money to the Egyptians two days after Barack Obama predicted doom over Sequester.
The media hasn’t put this oddity together. I guess it’s over their heads.
Egypt’s president promised to move ahead with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over economic reforms in return for the money. Apparently they are in dire straits. I thought we were in dire straits because of the Republicans. Didn’t Obama just say that on Friday?
Obama’s speech about the impending doom of Sequester begins with this statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPMM5...layer_embedded
“… At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some traction — hiring new workers, bringing jobs back to America — we shouldn’t be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on, like education, and research, and infrastructure and defense. It’s unnecessary. And at a time when too many Americans are still looking for work, it’s inexcusable.
Now, what’s important to understand is that not everyone will feel the pain of these cuts right away. The pain, though, will be real. Beginning this week, many middle-class families will have their lives disrupted in significant ways…”
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